James P Carley

Arthurian Poets: Matthew Arnold and William Morris James P Carley

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references.; Tristram and Iseult / Matthew Arnold -- The defense of Guenevere; King Arthur's tomb; Sir Galahad, a Christmas mystery; The chapel in Lyoness / William Morris.

Contributor Bio:  Carley, James P J. P. Carley is Distinguished Professor of English at York University in Toronto. His previous work includes "The Libraries of King Henry VIII (The British Library, 2000), which is volume VII in the Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues. Contributor Bio:  Arnold, Matthew 1822-1888Contributor Bio:  Morris, William William Morris (1834-1896) was an accomplished writer, textile designer and artist. A utopian socialist, he was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Craft Movement, and was a founding member of the Socialist League in Britain. Greatly influenced by the medieval period, Morris helped establish the modern fantasy genre though his works The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems, A Dream of John Ball, and The Well at the World's End. Authors like J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis were greatly influenced by works like The House of the Wolfings, The Roots of the Mountains, and The Wood Beyond the World. Morris was also an accomplished publisher, founding the Kelmscott Press in 1891, whose 1896 edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is considered a masterpiece of book design.